Castigating "a problem of the French bureaucracy", Bruno Retailleau, the leader of the senators Les Républicains, protested on Tuesday against the government requisitions of masks ordered by the communities to fight against the coronavirus.
"In the past few hours, masks have arrived which were ordered notably by the metropolis of Marseille or also by the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, and they have been confiscated, requisitioned by the state," Bruno Retailleau said on Franceinfo.
"The State is not large enough to place its own orders"
“These masks (…), these regions, these communities, they do not order them for fun, like a whim, they order them in particular for Ehpad, (…) the personnel who will help the elderly who have stayed with them, ”said the senator from Vendée. "The question I ask myself is" is the state not big enough to place its own orders and deliver them itself "," he added, pointing to "a problem of the French bureaucracy ”.
"Let's not stifle freedom," again urged Bruno Retailleau. "When you have bureaucratic crisis management, you either have decisions that are very slow to take, or you have absolutely no decisions." "And today in France, we have a state that is omnipresent, and which is unfortunately impotent, as we saw at least at the start of this pandemic," he said.
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